Old cast-iron baseboard repair

bob young

Do not fall into the trap. too much of a gamble for a business professional.start from scratch with new product , execute and get paid. leave the junk for the homeowner to expiriment with. if he can fix it he can put it in his basement or sell it to his neighbor or peddle it on e-bay. if you give it a shot and fail is he still going to pay you for your time and parts ?? not with a smile, that's for sure. and then after all that you still have to do the complete job anyway. why waste time & money.

Shawn Woodrow

Repair parts

We have a customer with an old 10-1/2" high cast iron baseboard that is leaking at a few of the push nipples. It looks like Weil-Mclain baseboard but is the wrong height. Any body have any ideas on who it could be? This is an older home that has been restored and the customer wants to try and keep it as is. I would just assume replace it with Base-ray but no go they want it repaired. Please help.
Shawn

Perry_2

How important is it to repair the old

If this is an "Historical" house or has some other unique features it may be worth repairing.

However, you need to present this option as most likely a time consuming and costly process, with a possibility of breakage of a section.

Just dismantling the old bassboard and replacing the push nipples may not be enough to stop leaks. The push nipple holes may need to be reamed to a larger size and custom push nipples used. At a minimum the push nipple holes need to be inspected. This is a job for an old stly boiler repair shop that is used to retubing boilers and heat exchangers. Quite honestly - it's somewhat of a R&D program as they are probably not used to push nipples - but would be within the capabilities of the good shops.

Of course - that is assuming that they can get the baseboard sections apart without any other breakage - always a chance of that.


Perry